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And so to the week’s biggest celebrity story — that six student unions have now banned the Robin Thicke single Blurred Lines
because of its allegedly misogynistic lyrics.

Bolton University’s Adam Johnson, president of the students union, explained that it was following the lead of the universities of Kingston, Edinburgh, Leeds, Derby and West Scotland, owing to “the increasing numbers of e-mails by student presidents across the country”.

Well, this is a tricky one. On the one hand, Blurred Lines is undoubtedly one of the great singles of the year — the kind of tight, stripped-down, funk/R&B pop that Prince used to